Hardware

Jun 8 2023

In Australia a Toto washlet costs more than $2000. Costco sells a Chinese-made bidet for $400. But the latter is, in a word, shitty.

Games

May 29 2023

Taito’s Egret Mini II Console has an optional joystick, and it’s a modern wonder. New and excellent mechanism, and solid construction.

Personal

Dec 31 2022

A look back at all the amazing music released in 2022. Not ALL of it, of course, just the best of it. As decided by me.

Games

Dec 29 2022

I’ve been tinkering a bit more under the hood of my Sega Naomi cabinet. Honestly, and I’m not proud of this, I spend way more time fucking with the wiring than I do playing games.

Games

Dec 23 2022

A brief hardware post talking about arcade joysticks from Sanwa, Seimitsu and Hori.

Games

Nov 14 2022

An old re-posted review of Namco’s cool but flawed JogCon racing controller.

Games

Nov 12 2022

The sound on my R-Type LEO arcade board went a little funny, and this is the tale of how I fixed it.

Games

Nov 12 2022

I recently picked up an arcade cabinet and so I was pulling all my arcade games out of storage. I was somewhat surprised to find that some of them didn’t work right anymore, including my Neo Geo MV-1F board.

Technology

Feb 3 2022

What is the blockchain? The blockchain is a distributed ledger, a list of transactions that’s made robust by spreading it around on multiple computers. Each transaction is duplicated, stored on many computers, and verified using complicated math. That’s it. It’s great for verifying transactions. A solution looking for a problem As a distributed ledger, the […]

Personal

Feb 4 2021

Wherein I learn to draw by tracing stuff. =)